Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen are a Norwegian-Finnish artist duo. Together, they work with complementing skills in photography, wearable sculpture and text, with a core mission to highlight dialogue on radical system change on interspecies relations.

Their twelve-year-long collaboration, Eyes as Big as Plates, has been exhibited and collected by art institutions worldwide, including the Barbican Centre in London, the Norwegian Museum of Photography and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.

Eyes as Big as Plates captures individuals actively involved or impacted by effects of today’s era of mass extinction: farmers, surfers, grandmas, citizen scientists, rewinding experts, wild boar hunters, mycologists, philosophers, etc.

Through photography, wearable sculpture, action research, and activism, the artists call for a collective and synchronised environmental stewardship.

The evocative portraits reframing older adults as wise figures connect us back to the natural world and present an ongoing exploration of relations across beings, challenging conventional narratives on how humans relate to their surroundings.

The artists have travelled the world over the years and the project has now grown to have 150 portraits captured in 17 countries across five continents.